Is there anyplace online to find whatever television ad campaigns from a specific company happen to be playing nationally in the US currently? [more inside]
posted by shakespeherian on Nov 6, 2009 - 2 answers

[Chicago Filter] Does anyone know anything about the "Less Than Perfect" ads running on the CTA? [more inside]
posted by phunniemee on Nov 6, 2009 - 12 answers

Saw a television ad several years ago with fantastic art direction depicting the stock market as a circus or similar frenzy of colorful, somewhat frightening characters. Can anyone help me track it down? [more inside]
posted by drdanger on Oct 12, 2009 - 0 answers

What was this TV ad (for)? Stereotypical teenage roll call: jock, prude, dork, babe, bonehead, lackadaisical, "huh?" [more inside]
posted by ostranenie on Sep 15, 2009 - 3 answers

Please help me find examples of short screencasts or short animated films that have been used to promote websites, stores, applications on the web. [more inside]
posted by shalam on Aug 12, 2009 - 2 answers

On MUNI and AcTransit buses here in the Bay Area, I've seen advertisements that had this wording:

Silly rabbit, I said 'bus ad'

What does that mean? Is it a reference to something? What are these ads even advertising?
posted by mulligan on Apr 19, 2009 - 20 answers

Help me come up with a funny campaign ad targeted to high schoolers to clinch the Student Body President election. [more inside]
posted by seandq on Apr 16, 2009 - 17 answers

Did Teddy Pendergrass do a Coca Cola advertisement 30-ish years ago? [more inside]
posted by dylanjames on Jan 8, 2009 - 1 answer

Is the x-ray the doctors are looking at in this advertisement fake? It looks like someone with a snake lodged in their pelvis. I can't imagine what it could be if it was real.
posted by XMLicious on Nov 7, 2008 - 11 answers

Eye-candy filled e-mail without having to open an attachment - how do you create this? [more inside]
posted by designbyme on Nov 4, 2008 - 11 answers

I know I've heard the opening bars of Beck's "Gamma Ray" in a commercial or promo recently (Telus? The Gap?) but I can't place it and my Google-fu in in the ditch today. Help!
posted by wexford_arts on Oct 30, 2008 - 0 answers

What is the cello piece that plays in the background of the new Evista ad?
posted by Raybun on May 17, 2008 - 1 answer

[Boston Filter] Where can I find a commercial for Dean's Home Furniture? The one with the (in)famous "I doubt it!" line. [more inside]
posted by laminarial on Apr 5, 2008 - 6 answers

What's this musical style/genre called? [more inside]
posted by ctmf on Feb 13, 2008 - 19 answers

I remember an magazine advertisement from long ago which featured a slick chess set made out of desk drawer miscellany. The pawns were binder clips. I think the rooks were loupes. I've always wanted to see it again. Anyone else remember this and have any other information about it? What was the ad? What were all the pieces?
posted by wobh on Jan 26, 2008 - 1 answer

The new IBM "Ideating" commercial...What is the music in the background? [more inside]
posted by Apo11o on Jan 9, 2008 - 16 answers

Where can I find a specific funny advertisement for natural gas? [more inside]
posted by chudmonkey on Dec 29, 2007 - 4 answers

Many adjectives used to describe overweight men in a nonoffensive manner can also be used to describe muscular men (i.e. stout, beefy, etc.). What are some adjectives that describe, with a positive or neutral connotation, the state of being both male and overweight, but that are not used (or at least not commonly used) to describe muscular men as well? [more inside]
posted by WCityMike on Oct 10, 2007 - 52 answers

There is an advertisement with a really ugly, mean looking, bully-like boar/pig. What company is it for? I recall him having really dark, thick eyebrows. [more inside]
posted by pinksoftsoap on Sep 6, 2007 - 11 answers

I'm looking for an Axe commercial from a few years ago. A girl sprays a mannequin with Axe, takes a big whiff and walks away. Enter another girl who smells him, then proceeds to incessentantly grope the mannequin. Orginial sprayer girl comes back and snaps "Get your hands off may MAN-nequin." Hilarious. Where, oh where, can I find it? Youtube and Google seem to be failing me.
posted by enaira on Aug 17, 2007 - 5 answers

What's the deal with those classmates.com ads? [more inside]
posted by ScotchLynx on Jul 23, 2007 - 7 answers

There is a recent series of anti-pot adds that are line drawings with some handwritten text and music. No talking. One of them is a guy in a window offering a J to a dog. The music is country style slide guitar. Does anyone know what that song is? I am pretty sure I have heard it before and that it is not written just for the add. [more inside]
posted by bob bisquick on Jun 3, 2007 - 6 answers

How do companies get ad-free MySpace profiles? [more inside]
posted by ijoshua on Mar 9, 2007 - 6 answers

MoreNameThatSongFilter [more inside]
posted by LunaticFringe on Dec 10, 2006 - 4 answers

Someone wants to use one of my Flickr photos for commercial use, and pay me for it. I'm flattered, but clueless about what I'm getting into. AskMe, please hope me! [more inside]
posted by easternblot on Jul 4, 2006 - 12 answers

What are the copyright implications if creating an ad using photos of figurines? [more inside]
posted by freakystyley on May 20, 2006 - 8 answers

Is this advertisement real? It's a Microsoft ad supposedly shown in a New Zealand CS class, but I can't find any evidence of it elsewhere. I'm pretty pissed if it is. [more inside]
posted by kcm on Feb 28, 2006 - 22 answers

Does advertising work? [more inside]
posted by Citizen Premier on Oct 22, 2005 - 42 answers

Who produced this PSA ad, in what city, and what year? [more inside]
posted by seawallrunner on Aug 26, 2005 - 3 answers

Copyright vs. Satire: How far can one extend the 'fair use' or satire legalities when it comes to using similar imagery in advertisement? (more inside) [more inside]
posted by BrodieShadeTree on Nov 9, 2004 - 7 answers

"Wait for the Beep! You gotta leave your name, you gotta leave your number . . " It was this cheezy late night tv commericial for an answering machine tape with "wacky" messages. Does anyone know the source for this or if there exist any samples?
posted by jeremias on Sep 25, 2004 - 4 answers

I have a friend from the UK who talks about a commercial with Samuel L. Jackson talking about the evils of money, and then wondering, "If a dollar was a chicken, would the chicken be evil?" The friend has no clue what the commercial was about or for, hasn't seen it since, and googling turns up nothing conclusive (perhaps we're searching the wrong things.) Got any ideas?
posted by precocious on Apr 25, 2004 - 9 answers

Does anyone remember a funny U.S. commercial featuring three bumpkins ("Little Yuka" and "Big Yuka", pronounced "yooka") living in the back of beyond, where one is found to be uncool for some reason (he breaks something?) and is duly whacked for it? The voice-over was, I think, in a Swedish-inflected hillbilly accent.
posted by MiguelCardoso on Apr 16, 2004 - 7 answers